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Speaker 2: And Today's day where you are going to want to

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Speaker 2: be around as much as you can. Next hour, two o'clock,

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Speaker 2: we're going to have the La Fire Chief himI Moore.

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Speaker 2: Now we only have him on for ten minutes, and

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Speaker 2: he's doing a media tour mostly television interviews, but we

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Speaker 2: got him, we got a slot, and so at about

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Speaker 2: two o'clock or so, next hour, Chief Himimore on the

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Speaker 2: phone and we'll talk to him about all that's going on.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if he has a particular announcement that

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Speaker 2: he wants to make, what kind of what, why he

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Speaker 2: wants to spread the word in so many places in

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Speaker 2: a short period of time, But we will we will

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Speaker 2: find out coming up in an hour, so be listening

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Speaker 2: right at two o'clock and shortly thereafter. Haimi Moore, the

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Speaker 2: LA Fire Chief, I'll be talking to him live and

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Speaker 2: one of the big stories and this broke late on

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Speaker 2: Friday regarding fire fighting here in Los Angeles. CBS News

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Speaker 2: CBS two had a report and we're going to play

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Speaker 2: you the report and it's about at over five minutes long.

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Speaker 2: It's it's really important because shockingly, CBS LA obtained public

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Speaker 2: records to show that more than well last year, they

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Speaker 2: got records showing that more than one hundred LA Fire

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Speaker 2: Department trucks and engines and ambulances had been out of

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Speaker 2: we have even fewer trucks and engines and ambulance is

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Speaker 2: available than last year. But the total numbers as of

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Speaker 2: last month, December twenty twenty five, the total numbers were

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Speaker 2: lower than the numbers in January twenty twenty five. Fewer

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Speaker 2: fire trucks, fewer engines, and fewer ambulances. And it looks

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Speaker 2: like there's a five percent drop in these categories. So

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Speaker 2: about two months ago, Home Moore was sworn in as

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Speaker 2: the new fire chief. Let's play to get things rolling.

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Speaker 2: The CBS two report with Jeff Win.

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Speaker 3: Just crazy hotspots everywhere. As the Palacies fire burned out

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Speaker 3: of control under hurricane force wins, some people chose to

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Speaker 3: stay and fight.

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Speaker 1: Your house is still standing, so is fine.

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Speaker 2: Court.

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Speaker 3: Wagner picked up garden hoses to take a stand against

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Speaker 3: the flames himself. I had all hoses running at every

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Speaker 3: house here, six hoses running two of that house, one two, three,

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Speaker 3: four seven total. Why did you choose to pick up

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Speaker 3: your garden holes?

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Speaker 1: We're on our own.

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Speaker 3: Last year, we obtained public records that showed more than

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Speaker 3: one hundred Lacit Fire Department trucks, engines, and ambulances had

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Speaker 3: been out of service and needing repair through a records request.

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Speaker 3: We recently got new data on the department's fleet. On

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Speaker 3: January seventh of last year, the day that Palisades fire

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Speaker 3: broke out, there were two hundred fifty two fire engines

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Speaker 3: and two hundred seventeen ambulances in the total fleet. But

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Speaker 3: according to LAFD data last month, the heavy apparatus count

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Speaker 3: drops of nearly five percent in both categories.

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Speaker 4: I may need more.

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Speaker 3: In November, Jimmie Moore was sworn in as the new

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Speaker 3: head of the departments following leadership changes brought on by

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Speaker 3: the handling of the Palace Stades. Fire More acknowledges the

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Speaker 3: department needs more equipment. Bud says he has to manage

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Speaker 3: following one of the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in

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Speaker 3: next few weeks. We wanted to ask the chief.

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Speaker 5: Why right now fire engine is about a two year

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Speaker 3: He also says some of the fire engines and trucks

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Speaker 5: We're putting about forty on the average, forty thousand miles

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Speaker 3: The union that represents firefighters says the problem is evident

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Speaker 3: at this fire station bay in South Lay and many

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Speaker 6: Usually, so what we'd have is we'd have the fire

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Speaker 3: The department report to the Fire Commission data just days

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Speaker 3: before the Paliciaes fires said the overall response time of

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Speaker 3: LAFD resources has increased from six minutes fifty one seconds

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty two. That's about twice the four minute standard

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Speaker 3: set by the National Fire Protection Association. The union says

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Speaker 3: LAFD staffing is about half the size the department needs

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Speaker 3: to keep LA safe. Chief More is looking at bringing

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Speaker 3: in more fast response vehicles, which don't have a two

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Speaker 3: in four to six months. He believes they can help

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Speaker 3: improve response times on small fires and medical calls, and

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Speaker 3: they're less costly than a large fire engine, which is

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Speaker 3: staffed four members. Frvs have to by doing so, do

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Speaker 3: we impact the coverage by having fewer human beings, boots.

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Speaker 1: On the ground, yes and no.

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Speaker 5: Having an FRV there allows us the flexibility to get

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Speaker 5: a resource on scene. However, an FRV in some cases

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Speaker 5: does not take the place of a fire engine, and

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Speaker 5: it does not take the place of a truck.

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Speaker 3: A major reason so many apparatus are out of service

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Speaker 3: is the fire department has had a shortage of mechanics

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Speaker 3: for years. Since the Palisades fire, seventeen positions have been

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Speaker 3: authorized for hire. One automotive supervisor position has been filled,

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Speaker 3: but zero mechanics so far.

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Speaker 5: I think there's a big demand for mechanics out there

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Speaker 5: and there's a shortage of mechanics.

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Speaker 3: This is councilwoman at Tracy Park who represents the palis

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Speaker 3: Ades walking through the monochromatic wasteland of the fire on

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Speaker 3: January eighth of last year. One year later, we asked

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Speaker 4: I don't feel that we are really any better prepared

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Speaker 3: The mechanics shortage. She says, we may need to reform

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Speaker 3: the city charter, which makes hiring key positions so slow.

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Speaker 4: It's a leftover product from the nineteen six season. We

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Speaker 4: have got to move to more online systems. We have

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Speaker 3: The department says it typically takes about eight to ten

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Speaker 3: months to fill positions like mechanics. Your house is standing,

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Speaker 3: your neighbor's houses are standing, yep, But are they livable?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 3: A lot of toxic smoke poali states Fire survivor Court

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Speaker 3: Wagner says, the shortages of equipment and staff will have

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Speaker 3: a lasting impact on rebuilding. Here, what's the psychological impact

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Speaker 3: of those numbers.

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Speaker 1: You want to leave?

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Speaker 3: The psychological impact is you still have no faith in

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Speaker 3: the governing bodies. Mayor Karen Bass's office declined our request

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Speaker 3: for an interview, instead emailing a statement that reads in

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Speaker 3: part of Mayor Bass proposed and secured one hundred and

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Speaker 3: twenty million dollars in funding authorization for engines, trucks and

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Speaker 3: other apparatus during fiscal year twenty four twenty five and

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Speaker 3: fiscal year twenty five twenty six. In the meantime, the

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Speaker 3: Firefighters Union will start a signature gathering campaign this month

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Speaker 3: to get a half cent sales tax ballot measure on

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Speaker 3: the November ballot. The money would raise funds to go

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Speaker 3: towards new trucks, engines, and fire stations.

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Speaker 2: All right, And that is Jeff Win for CBS two

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Speaker 2: here in Los Angeles. The shocking report is that there

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Speaker 2: are fewer fire trucks, fire engines, and ambulances as part

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Speaker 2: a year ago the day of the fire.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to believe.

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Speaker 2: Part of the problem is that there's been a consolidation

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Speaker 2: of fire manufacturers fire truck manufacturers, and there is a

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Speaker 2: really long wait to get a new fire truck. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna explain what has happened. There was a lot of

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Speaker 2: corporate merging going on and there just aren't that many

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Speaker 2: places to go to get a not that many companies

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Speaker 2: that construct fire trucks and what they do do it

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Speaker 2: takes a long time. So we'll get into that, and then,

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Speaker 2: like I said, two o'clock, next hour, we're gonna have

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Speaker 2: the new fire chief. Hi Mei moron. We've got a

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Speaker 2: short time, short window. He's doing a whole media tour

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Speaker 2: one by one. We'll have him on at about two o'clock.

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Speaker 2: We are going to have LA Fire chief, Hi, me Moron.

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Speaker 2: At two o'clock, we have a short interview. He's doing

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Speaker 2: a media tour, and we have a window at about

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Speaker 2: two o'clock or shortly thereafter, himI Moore, the LA Fire Chief,

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Speaker 2: on the phone, so you'd be listening to that. And

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Speaker 2: we just played the CBS two report by Jeff Winn

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Speaker 2: on Los Angeles. We've got five percent fewer fire trucks,

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Speaker 2: fire engines, and five percent fewer ambulances than we did

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Speaker 2: on January seventh, the day of the fire. So twelve

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Speaker 2: months later, we have less less equipment to put out

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Speaker 2: made wonder because actually you didn't know this, just looked

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Speaker 2: it up. What is the difference between fire engines and

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Speaker 1: Do you know?

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Speaker 8: I do not know?

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Speaker 2: All right, well, I'm going to tell you. Fire engines

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Speaker 2: are for fire suppression. They have a water tank and

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Speaker 2: a pump, and they carry fire hoses. A fire truck

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Speaker 2: that's like a ladder truck, and that's for rescue and access.

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Speaker 2: They have an aerial ladder or a platform to access

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Speaker 2: high rise buildings. They have ground ladders. They have ventilation

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Speaker 2: tools like axes and saws to bust things open. They

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Speaker 2: have limited or in some cases no water tank. So

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Speaker 2: that's the difference between a fire engine which carries the

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Speaker 9: And then John, I was asking you this off the air,

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Speaker 9: but maybe somebody has the answer. So you know, my

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Speaker 9: dad was taken to the er on New Year's Day,

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Speaker 9: so we called nine to one one paramedics came as

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Speaker 9: well as a fire truck. Why why do we need

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Speaker 9: a fire truck to come when a paramedics an ambulance

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Speaker 9: is coming.

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Speaker 1: And I've seen that frequently. I've seen fire trucks show

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Speaker 1: up with an ambulance.

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Speaker 8: And there's no fire.

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Speaker 1: They're doing a health check on an elderly person and.

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Speaker 9: There's no rescue. So we don't need a fire truck

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Speaker 9: or a fire engine. So I'm just I'm I'm truly,

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Speaker 9: I don't know.

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Speaker 8: I know that there's an answer to that, obviously, and it's.

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Speaker 2: An important question because they put so many miles on

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Speaker 2: fire trucks every year.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they put, according.

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Speaker 2: To LA, forty thousand miles a year they put on

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Speaker 2: the fire trucks and here in La. You know, we

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Speaker 2: have thousands and thousands of bumfires, and so they're constantly

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Speaker 2: in motion putting out all the fires that the vagrants

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Speaker 2: the arsonists who were let out of prison and now

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Speaker 1: They make a choice every year.

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Speaker 1: All right, the LA Fire chief. Now, Rob Bonta.

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Speaker 2: Mini me of Gavin Newsom. Have you ever seen the

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Speaker 2: Now he announced today that he's not running for governor.

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Speaker 2: Attorney General is often a launching pad to becoming governor.

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Speaker 2: It's actually, I would think a better launching pad than

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Speaker 2: And who is the other lieutenant governor that made the

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Speaker 2: Lieutenant governors are generally losers. They run for that office

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Speaker 2: You know, if you had somebody good as a better

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Speaker 1: But when it comes to all the fraud in this.

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Speaker 2: State public officials and nonprofits stealing our tax money, Banta

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Speaker 2: his in and out nature running for governor. He was

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Speaker 2: thinking about it last year, then decided he's not going

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Speaker 1: He also got involved.

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Speaker 2: With a scandal in Oakland, and he had spent a

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Speaker 2: Sheng Foul. Sheng Fou was charged with bribery. Somehow Bunta

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Speaker 2: You ever have to spend a half million dollars of

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Speaker 2: But then the dog started posting photos of them online

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Speaker 1: Huh.

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Speaker 2: But here's the thing in the In Bonta's statement, he says,

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Speaker 2: the up pouring of encouragement from supporters, friends and family

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Speaker 2: and reminded me how grateful I am to work with

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Speaker 2: Our fight against corp agreed and attacks from Washington require

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Speaker 1: In the courtroom.

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Speaker 2: Let me tell you he's filed, on average this year,

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Speaker 1: And that's all he does.

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Speaker 2: There are no investigations, there are no lawsuits.

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Speaker 1: When you look at the two billion.

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Speaker 2: Dollars that Karen Bass lost that was supposed to fund

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Speaker 2: the homeless, she can't explain where the money went. Shouldn't

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 2: Remember when there was a civil lawsuit trying to figure

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Speaker 2: So something's going on there. Shouldn't Bond to be investigating Bass. Secondly,

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Speaker 2: Kevin Newsom admitted that he lost track of twenty four

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Speaker 2: billion dollars in homeless money. How's that possible? You ever

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Speaker 2: lose track at twenty four billion? Well, Newsom did same thing.

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Speaker 2: This is all nonprofit money. This is all stuff involving

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Speaker 2: of dollars money just disappearing. Shouldn't Bond to be investigating

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Speaker 2: Newsom and all the homeless nonprofits? No, not doing it

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Speaker 1: Not doing it in Sacramento.

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Speaker 2: How about the thirty to fifty billion dollars that was

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Speaker 2: Rob Bonte investigating any of that? Investigating Newsome, investigating Julie Sue,

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Speaker 2: speed rail? Holy moly, high speed rail seventeen billion smackers

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Speaker 2: seventeen billion in eighteen years? No track does BoNT investigate

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Speaker 1: Same thing.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we don't know where the money went. It's not

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Speaker 2: written down. It just disappears. You have tens of billions

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Speaker 2: in this state. It's the same characters behind it. It's Newsome,

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Speaker 2: it's Bass and Rob Bonta. Doesn't investigate him, but he

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Speaker 2: files suit against Trump. Trump, Who's got nothing to do

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Speaker 2: with the high speed theft, nothing to do with the

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Speaker 2: homeless money theft in Los Angeles, nothing to do with

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Speaker 2: the homeless money theft that Gavin Newsom was managing. Nothing

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Speaker 2: to do with the unemployment money and all that fraud

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Speaker 2: which was during the Biden administry. It's got nothing to

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Speaker 2: don't see anything for Bass and Newsom, the people running

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Speaker 2: How many people should be under indictment at high speed rail?

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Speaker 2: How many nonprofit heads ought to be under indictment in

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Speaker 2: La and San Francisco and all the other big cities.

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Speaker 2: He doesn't investigate anybody, doesn't see anybody. But he wanted

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Speaker 2: was an investigation that he was somehow connected to a

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Speaker 2: bribery case involving the Oakland mayor. And he was so

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Speaker 2: temporarily out of the homeless scandal. This is what's going

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Speaker 2: on here, all right. We got the fire chief, himI

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Speaker 2: Moore coming up after two o'clock and Dero. I got

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Speaker 2: something for you. A lot of vegans like to forage.

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Speaker 2: You know what foraging is. You walk through the fields

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Speaker 2: and you pick.

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Speaker 8: I thought you were going to say, fart. I don't

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Speaker 8: know why.

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Speaker 2: No, forage is better forage? You know, you pick stuff

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Speaker 2: out of the ground and you eat it. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: wild food. Well, bad news if you do that.

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Speaker 7: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am sixty.

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Speaker 2: Shortly after Debra's news, We're going to have Heimi Moore,

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Speaker 2: the Los Angeles fire Chief, coming on. It's a short interview.

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Speaker 2: He's doing a whole media tour. We got a window

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Speaker 2: a little bit after two o'clock and we will talk

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Speaker 2: to Haimi Moore, the LA fire Chief, coming up up

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Speaker 1: So, as a vegan, do you go foraging? Do you

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Speaker 1: go out in the fields.

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Speaker 2: And pick uh, you know, weeds and whatever is growing

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Speaker 2: out of the ground, herbs.

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Speaker 8: And I mean I have I have done that with

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Speaker 8: some herbs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you pick stuff out of the ground, just

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Speaker 1: eat it.

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Speaker 8: When I have grown at myself.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, well I know, I know, I know crazy vegans

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Speaker 2: do this stuff. You ever picked mushrooms?

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Speaker 9: Oh god, no, I'm worried about that. All right, Well,

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Speaker 9: too many poisonous ones.

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Speaker 2: Death cap mushrooms. Uh, they're the one of the most

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Speaker 2: recognizable mushrooms. It looks like the you know, it has

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Speaker 2: a helmet on. Yeah. In the last two months, there

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Speaker 2: were thirty five cases of wild mushroom poisoning poisoning in

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Speaker 2: the state Sonoma County. Three people died, three others needed

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Speaker 2: liver transplants. People go and pick wild mushrooms. They picked

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Speaker 2: the death camp, the death cap mushroom, and they eat.

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Speaker 8: Them because they don't know that they're deadly, they're toxic. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: but if you don't know, right, you think, Okay.

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Speaker 9: We buy mushrooms in the grocery store, at the farmers market,

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Speaker 9: we get them at restaurants.

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Speaker 1: I've never picked anything out of the ground an eat it,

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Speaker 1: not once.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, but if there were burgers growing out of the ground.

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Speaker 2: When I was seven or eight years old, I learned

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Speaker 2: about death cat mushrooms and they were all over my

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Speaker 2: back and front yard. Oh yeah, and I was terrified

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Speaker 2: after a big rain. Yeah, I was just going to say,

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Speaker 2: a couple of days later they'd pop up and I

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Speaker 2: looked at them as a little kid, and it's like,

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Speaker 2: oh my god, this could kill me.

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Speaker 8: Really, you thought that they could kill you? Yes, you

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Speaker 8: were smart, little lad.

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Speaker 2: I no, I had heard some Well it was a

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Speaker 2: little kid I heard. Maybe my mother told me don't

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Speaker 2: eat the mushroom. Mushrooms. You can't cook them, boil them,

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Speaker 2: dry them, freeze them. They're poisonous no matter what you do,

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Speaker 2: and it'll kill you in a matter of days. Six

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Speaker 2: hours in you have diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, pain, dehydration, and

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Speaker 2: then you're dies within two to four days, fatal liver toxicity.

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Speaker 8: Well, thank you for that, PSA. I will not be

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Speaker 8: picking mushrooms. But I knew. I knew that. I only

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Speaker 8: I only eat mushrooms that are not.

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Speaker 2: I never eat I of course you don't. They're disgusting.

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Speaker 2: They can kill you. All right, we come back. We

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Speaker 2: got Deborah's news and then him Moore, the LA fire chief,

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Speaker 2: on for a short interview on the phone Deborah Mark

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Speaker 2: live in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've

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